Wednesday

I'd been told to expect a parcel, which arrived yesterday as promised. I opened it up and found this ...

... afternoon tea for two. What you can't see in the photo is two pots of clotted cream underneath the cakes, two scotch eggs underneath the quiches, two sausage rolls and two cheese and pickle rolls underneath the tea bags. Oh, and two vanilla scones in the paper bag. I followed instructions and phoned L and P before I opened the box; they then sent a Zoom link for early evening when we, together with E who'd received an identical parcel, shared afternoon tea together. They'd chosen the savoury tea box because they thought there would be more of a selection of things I could eat, which was incredibly thoughtful of them. It probably hasn't helped my diet at all but it definitely cheered me up. It's a lot of food and most of the pastry items have been wrapped individually and frozen for the occasional treat, and the cakes, clotted cream, and tea bags were given to my neighbours. During our Zoom tea party I had one of the quiches and both scones with some of the jam, which was plenty for me. Oh, and some coffee of course! It was a complete surprise and such a lovely idea. 

The afternoon was taken up with two of the online talks. The first one, Am I Descended From A Viking?, was excellent. It covered quite a bit of ground that I already knew but did give some examples relating to a person's DNA and the continuity of that DNA through the family line which just made it so easy to follow. The talk also reminded me that using my Ancestry DNA results on other genealogy sites may be worthwhile as there is a chance of finding connections to other DNA matches who don't use the Ancestry site. I've added that to my to-do list.

The second talk, Folklore, Folk Tales and Funny Folk, was a little disappointing. The speaker was a Toastmaster and, I am sure, excellent in that situation but unfortunately I found him rather irritating. That, added to the fact that there was no new-to-me information, left me feeling rather dissatisfied. I love quirky facts but this just didn't do it for me!

Today, it's the first Nutrition Club, again held online. This will be run by the Nutritionist I stumbled across the other week and I have been looking out for this club to be advertised. If I've remembered correctly this will be a chance to chat, in a group, about anything and everything nutrition related and should be interesting. 

That's the only thing in the diary for today. As for the rest of the day, the forecast is dire and I won't be going out so as well as the usual Italian practice, piano practice, and some reading, I want to continue with the family tree research. That should keep be busy for most of the day.